The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.